Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 23

• When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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  Music, Stupid, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

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  Dwelling Place, Wings, Bird

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• They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

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  Spiritual, Men, Mankind

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• Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

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  Life, Wisdom, Eye

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• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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  Rivers, Silence, Drink

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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• I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.

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  Memories, Love Is, Silent

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

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  Love, Spiritual, Embrace

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• Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Truth

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

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  Past, Remembrance, Longing

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

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  Song, Art, Philosophy

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

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  Adversity, Hardship, Retreat

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• In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.

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  Jesus, Father, Clouds

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Love is quivering happiness.

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  Love, Love Is

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• For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

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  Giving, Giver, Witness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

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  Mean, Men, Court Judges

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

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  Wind, Clothes, Body

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

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  Wedding, Memories, Wind

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

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  Summer, Gratitude, Regret

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.114, Lulu.com

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• Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

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  Cutting, Two, Mind

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

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  Children, Archer, Arrows

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• To be closer to god, be closer to people.

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  People

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• What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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  Love, Cute, Sad

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• And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.

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  Memories, Years, Yesterday

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

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  Hands, Tears, Skins

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.10, Lulu.com

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